Toy.



D. E. ALLEN.

TOY.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 16, 1915.

l, 1 68,269. Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

THE COLUMBIA FLANOGRAPH c0. WASHINGTON, D. c.

DAVID E. ALLEN, 0F ARDMORE, OKLAHOMA.

TOY.

Application filed October 16, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID E. ALLEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ardmore, in the county of Carter and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain improvements in toys and has relation more particularly to a device of this general character of a wheeled type and it is an object of the invention to provide a toy including a surface wheel and a Whirligig operatively engaged with the wheel and adapted to rotate in unison therewith.

The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts whereby certain important advantages are attained and the device is rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, all as will be here inafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in the appended claims.

In order that my invention may be the better understood, I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein,

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation illustrating a toy constructed in accordance with an embodiment of my invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken through the wheel and cylinder as herein disclosed with the shaft and Whirligig in elevation; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view illustrating the operative connection between the supporting wheel and the shaft.

As disclosed in the accompanying drawings, 1 denotes a wheel preferably a metal disk, such as tin adapted to roll upon a surface and having secured to one face thereof the disk 2 provided with an annular series of laterally extending teeth 3 arranged concentrically to the axis of the wheel 1. Secured to the disk 2 at the axial center thereof, through the medium of the stub shaft 4, is the handle 5 of predetermined dimensions and capable of freely rocking upon the stub shaft 1 and secured to the lower end of the handle and extending upwardly and radially of the disk 2 is a sleeve 6, said sleeve being adapted to move in unison with the handle 5 in the independent movement of the handle 5 about the stub Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

Serial No. 56,282.

shaft 4. The end portion of the sleeve 6 connected to the handle 5 is flattened to afford a closed end 7 provided with an upstanding fulcrum member 8 substantially conical in form and positioned within the sleeve 6 and serving as a mounting for the lower end of the shaft 9 loosely insertible withinthe sleeve 6 and having its lower or inner extremity provided with the recess 10 to receive the mounting 8. The shaft 10 is of such a length as to extend beyond the upper Or open end of the sleeve 6 and secured to the outer end of said shaft is the Whirligig 11 of any fanciful design and rotatable about an axis perpendicular to the axis of the wheel 1 or disk 2.

The inner wall or face of the sleeve 6 is provided with a tangential opening 12 to permit the teeth 3 of the disk 2 to partially intersect the bore of the sleeve 6 and mesh with the teeth 14 disposed around the shaft 9 at a point intermediate the length thereof and whereby said shaft 9 will be caused to rotate in unison with the wheel 1 as the same is rolled over a supporting surface.

It is to be understood that the Whirligig 11 may be of any fanciful design which will best attract the fancy of a child.

From the foregoing description, it is thought to be obvious that a toy constructed in accordance with my invention is of an extremely simple and comparatively inexpensive nature and is particularly well adapted for use by reason of the convenience and facility with which it may be assembled, and it will also be obvious that my invention is susceptible of some change and modification without material departure from the principles and spirit thereof and for this reason I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise arrangement and formation of the several parts herein shown in carrying out my invention in practice.

What I claim is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a toy including a wheel having an annular series of teeth carried by a side face thereof, a handle loosely engaged with the wheel at the axial center thereof, said teeth being concentric to the axial center of the wheel, a sleeve secured to the handle and radiating from the axial center of the wheel, said sleeve being provided in its inner face with an opening through which the teeth of the wheel travel, a shaft loosely mounted within the sleeve and provided with an annular series of teeth in mesh With the teeth of the Wheel, said shaft being of a length to extend beyond the sleeve, and a Whirligig carried by the extended end of the shaft.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a toy including a Wheel having an annular series of teeth carried by side face thereof, a handle loosely engaged With the Wheel at the axial center thereof, said teeth being concentric to the axial center of the Wheel, a; sleeve secured to the handle and radiating from the axial center of the Wheel, saidsleeve be ing provided in its inner face With an opening through which the teeth of the Wheel travel, the inner end of said sleeve being closed and provided With an upstanding extension to afford a mounting, a. shaft loosely disposed Within the sleeve and resting upon the mounting Within the sleeve,

said shaft being provided With a series of 20 E. E. CHIVER, E. A. VVYMORE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents eaeh,'by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

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